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Fair Trade Coffee: How to buy fair trade coffee

Coffee Lover — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:19:00 +0000

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You’ve heard the term ‘fair trade’ but do you know what it means? Organic food expert and environmentalist Anna Lappe explains why she believes it’s important to buy fair trade coffee, and how to find it.

How to buy fair trade coffee

What is fair trade coffee?
* Basically, fair trade means the farmer who produced the product got a fair price for it. This is very important for the livelihood of coffee farmers. Millions of coffee farmers can barely feed their families because they get almost no money for their coffee beans unless its fair trade.

* How do you find it? Look for the black and white fair trade logo which is marked on all fair trade coffee and fair trade coffee beans at every Starbucks, although you may have to ask for it.

* Supermarkets are beginning to carry it as well, in many cases. If you dont find it, ask your grocer for it. Sometimes it just takes some customer requests.

Every time you buy a fair trade coffee beans you can feel good knowing that you’re contributing to farming communities around the planet.

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Duration : 0:1:44

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Coffee Farmers Organizations (Buginyanya, Bugisu, Uganda)

Coffee Lover — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:56:13 +0000

Meet Geoffrey, of Kyagalanyi Coffee Co. (Crop to Cup’s specialty coffee export partner in Uganda). Geoffrey explains how farmers are organized in Eastern Uganda’s Bugisu region in order to improve on coffee quality and help build sustainable communities. Near the end of the video you can also meet Peter and Milton – two of the many dedicated family farmers who contribute to Crop to Cup’s signature Uganda Bugisu product. Check out our other videos to meet other farmers and explore their communities.

Duration : 0:4:16

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Green Star Coffee Commercial

Coffee Lover — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:56:08 +0000

Fresh. Fair Trade. Local. Organic.

Good for you.
Better for the farmer.
Best for the planet

Green Star Coffee sources only
the finest organic coffees and
teas from the premier growing
regions around the world.

Each of our 100% Arabica coffees is hand blended,
roasted to order and only offered at their peak of freshness.
dan randall, roastmaster and co-founder

100% Organic flavorings
Offering a rarely found
true organic flavored coffee

From procuring fine green coffee beans, to
roasting with meticulous fanaticism for quality
and perfection, to delivering our product with
outstanding service and personalized attention,
Green Star Coffee always produces an
exceptional cup.

Our Roastmasters have a passion for coffee. This
involves an intimate understanding of the beans
themselves and the equipment used to roast
them. The process takes time and skill based on
years of roasting experience. Timing, temperature
and chemical composition changes within the
beans are just a few of the aspects our
Roastmasters continually monitor.
We choose to roast our beans “to order” in our
Santa Barbara roastery rather than mass
producing batches like larger chains do. The
result is well worth it. This process defines the
quality and freshness of our coffee.

In addition to offering
a superb product, we
pride ourselves on
providing complete
coffee solutions including equipment
and 24 hour customer support for a
diverse array of
corporate, restaurant,
wholesale and retail
clients globally.

Fresh. Fair Trade. Local. Organic.

Duration : 0:0:30

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Green Bean Coffee – Part 4 – Second Crack & Grande Finale!

Coffee Lover — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:46:02 +0000

Part 4 – Second Crack & Grande Finale!

How to roast gourmet coffee beans with the master of coffee, Derryl Reid of Green Bean Coffee Imports.

Green Bean Coffee Imports is the first (and only) Manitoba company to be Fair Trade Certified to sell FTC (and organic) gourmet coffee.

In this clip, Derryl teaches how to roast coffee beans to perfection. Watch out Starbucks, Move over Second Cup, Look out Tim Hortons – Green Bean Coffee is in town!

http://www.greenbeancoffeeimports.com

Leave a comment – tell us what you think!

Duration : 0:3:26

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2009 Fair Trade, Nicaragua Coffee Farmers #3: Organic coffee beans, Nicaraguan women respected

Coffee Lover — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Two Northern Michigan University (NMU) students – Lisa McCarthy of Greenville, WI and Sarah Swanson of Rapid River, MI – are giving presentations across the Upper Peninsula on their recent Lutheran World Relief trip to Nicaragua during which they met with coffee farmers and learned about fair trade.
This is the first of several excerpts from their presentation.
In part three, the students describe how the women of Nicaragua are treated with respect, the importance of families and the environmental protection efforts of one Nicaraguas organic farmers.
The NMU students among 13 Americans on Lutheran World Relief Study Tour entitled NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim from January 5-12, 2009
The group visited the capitol of Managua, and the cities/villages of Matagalpa, Jinotega and La Reyna.
Fair trade ensures fair wages, and protects women’s rights and human rights plus fights poverty.
Arriving at the peak of the coffee harvest, the students visited many aspects of the industry including dry mills, wet mills and coffee cooperatives.
They spoke on January 13, 2008 to a group at the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Marquette, MI.

Related links:

LWR Study Trips

http://www.lwr.org/study

Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU)

http://www.nmulutherans.org

http://www.nmulutherans.org/newsletter.html#fragment-5

http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

http://www.elca.org

Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS)

http://www.nglsynod.org

http://www.nglsynod.org/about-our-synod.html

LWR Study Tour on January 5-12, 2009 – NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim:

http://www.lwr.org/study/nica

Fair Trade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fairtrade_Certification_Mark

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade

http://www.crsfairtrade.org/assets/fair-trade-timeline.pdf

http://www.fairtrade.net

http://www.transfairusa.org

http://www.usworker.coop/front

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fair_Trade_Organization

Equal Exchange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Exchange

http://www.equalexchange.coop/fair-trade

http://www.equalexchange.coop

Videos

http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/03/12/make-your-sweet-tooth-an-equal-exchange/

http://www.equalexchange.coop/new-video

SolCafé

http://www.vianica.com/activity/122/visit-to-the-solcafe-coffee-processing-plant

http://schweisguth.org/~melissa/nicaragua/solcafe.html

CECOCAFEN

http://www.equalexchange.coop/profile-of-cecocafen-in-nicaragua

http://www.transfairusa.org/pdfs/profiles/Cecocafen-Nica.PDF

http://www.alternativa3.com/2006/productores.php?id=150&idioma=en

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/cecocafen

Nicaragua coffee cooperatives

http://fairtrade.change.org/blog/view/face_of_fair_trade_la_fem_coffee_cooperative

http://crs.org/nicaragua/women-coffee-coop

http://www.equalexchange.coop/worker-owned

http://www.usaid.gov/stories/nicaragua/cs_nc_coffee.html

http://justcoffee.coop/en/geography/nicaragua

http://www.nicaraguasc.org.uk/partners/index.htm

Center for Global Education

http://globaled.us

http://www.globaled.us/wwcu

http://www.globaled.us/wwcu/state.asp?region=Michigan

Fair Trade Principals

http://www.kaldi.com/fair-trade-coffee.htm.

Email LWR Coffee Project & Fair Trade
fairtrade at lwr.org

Update Fair Trade projects/participate in LWR Action Center:

http://action.lwr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SignUp

Lutheran World Relief & Fair Trade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_World_Relief

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/justice.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/lwt.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/elsal.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/elcanr.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/faith.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/cup.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/justice.asp

http://www.equalexchange.coop/LWR-Delegation-to-Nicaragua

http://www.lwr.org/fairtrade/resources.asp

Duration : 0:10:58

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The story behind gourmet Mexican coffee

Coffee Lover — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:38:39 +0000

From Crop To Cup — Our coffee begins its journey at 4,000 feet above sea level, in the cloud forests of Mexico. Watch as our premium beans are hand-sorted using ancestral techniques passed down many generations. Learn more at www.jalimacoffee.com.

Duration : 0:4:59

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Let’s Talk Coffee Event – Fair trade coffee farmers

Coffee Lover — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:12:08 +0000

Let’s Talk Coffee (LTC) is the hallmark of Sustainable Harvest’s Relationship Coffee model. It’s an annual event that brings together all members of the specialty coffee supply chain to help build trusting, transparent, sustainable relationships.

Sustainable Harvest is a green specialty coffee importer with a unique mission to link small holder growers to better paying markets using a concept it created called “Relationship Coffee.”

Sustainable Harvest was the first importer to focus exclusively on organic, shade-grown, and fair trade specialty coffees. The Specialty Coffee Association of America awarded Sustainable Harvest the 2006 Sustainability Award for the creation and development of the idea of “Relationship Coffee”, for this new business model which has helped thousands of small coffee farmers and communities.

This video is to share how small companies can start an industry trend by creating innovative and sustainable business trade relationships between growers and buyers.

Duration : 0:3:48

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Relationship Coffee Fair Trade Case Study – Part 2 of 2

Coffee Lover — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:17:11 +0000

Second half of Sustainable Harvest Relationship Coffee Case Study. Sustainable Harvest is a for-profit coffee importer business with a strong social mission to provide sustainable, lasting markets for coffee farmers around the world.

As one of the largest fair trade coffee importers in the world, the price Sustainable Harvest pays growers is always well above the world commodity prices for coffee.

Relationship Coffee is built upon a foundation of transparency, full traceability, trade credit, total quality, and training.

Sustainable Harvest overseas farmer training offices help small-holder coffee growers to improve their quality and access higher paying markets.

As an importer of green specialty coffees from the top organic and fair trade farms from around the world, the company sells directly to coffee roaster/retailers.

Sustainable Harvest was the first importer to focus exclusively on organic, shade-grown, and fair trade specialty coffees. It was recognized by the Specialty Coffee Association of America in 2006 for the creation and development of the idea called “Relationship Coffee”, as a new business model which has helped thousands of small coffee farmers and communities survive the recent coffee crisis.

The company remains the industry leader in building sustainable coffee trade relationships between growers and buyers.

Duration : 0:6:52

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Relationship Coffee Fair Trade Case Study – Part 1 of 2

Coffee Lover — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:08 +0000

Sustainable Harvest is a green specialty coffee importer with a unique mission to link small holder growers to better paying markets using a concept it created called “Relationship Coffee.” As one of the largest fair trade coffee importers in the world, the price Sustainable Harvest pays growers is always well above the world commodity prices for coffee.

Sustainable Harvest hopes to set an example for how a small business can create sustainable systems that build lasting markets for coffee farmers around the globe.

Relationship Coffee is built upon a foundation of transparency, full traceability, trade credit, total quality, and training.

Sustainable Harvest invests about half of what it earns as a coffee importer to train small-holder coffee growers and coffee cooperatives to improve their quality and access higher paying markets. It does this through five overseas farmer-training offices in Africa, South America, Central America and Mexico – all of which are devoted to farmer training and coffee support services.

As one of the fastest growing specialty coffee importers, the company sources from the top organic and fair trade farms from around the world. The company sells these coffees to USA, Canadian and Japanese coffee roasters and retailers, and helps them tell the story behind the beans.

Sustainable Harvest was the first importer to focus exclusively on organic, shade-grown, and fair trade specialty coffees. The company was awarded in 2006 by the Specialty Coffee Association of America for the creation and development of the idea called “Relationship Coffee”, as a new business model which has helped thousands of small coffee farmers and communities survive the recent coffee crisis.

This video is to share how small companies can become an industry trend setter in creasting innovative and sustainable business trade relationships between growers and buyers.

Duration : 0:8:17

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